Improvement in neck-tie supporters



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN NECK-TIE SUPPORTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,129. dated August 14, 1866.V

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, W. H. HART, Jr., of the city and county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Holder for Neck-Ties, Scarfs, 85e.; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

The present invention relates to a new and useful holder for scarfs, neck-ties, and other similar articles of wearing-apparel, by means of which they can be readily secured in posi tionupon the neck of the person, for being tied and worn, and removed therefrom without injuring or soiling the collar in the least degree and without requiring the scarf or the necktie, as the case may be, to be passed entirely around the neck, the said holder being provided and combined with a fastening, by which the neck-tie or scarf can be readily secured to and detached from it at pleasure'.

In accompanying plate of drawings, my improved holder for scarfs, neck -tes, Ste., is illustrated, Figure l being a front view of the saine, with a neck-tie secured toit; and Fig. 2, an edge view of the same from. the upper side.

Similar letters of reference indicate ulike parts.

A in the drawings represents the holder for the neck-tie or scarf, which may be made of hammered sheet-brass or any other suitable sheet metal or material having similar characteristicsthat is, stillness, with sufficient iiexibility to allow it to be bent without breakin gwhich holder is made of the general form 'or shape to that described in the schedule annexed to the Letters Patent granted to me on the Sth day of May,'A. D. 1866, on an improved cravat-holder, and is applied to the collar of a shirt in a similar manner thereto, and therefore needs no furtheror more particular description herein.

To the front side, B, of this holder A an elastic loop, C, is secured at one end, that, eX- tending across the length of the holder, is looped or fastened over a stationary or fixed hook, D, attached thereto in any proper mannerby riveting, soldering, &c.-or forming a part thereof.

By this loop C a neck-tie or scarf can be secured to the holder, it being accomplished by first detachin g or unfastening it from the hook D, andthen laying the neck-tie or scarf, as the case may be, upon the front side of the holder, between the point at which the loop is secured to it and its hook, and then passing the loop over the neck-tie, dto., and engaging it with the hook, as before explained, whereby, as is obvious, the neck-tie is firmly secured to the holder, and thus, when the holder is properly placed upon the neck, susceptible ot' being tied into a bow or other desired form.

From the above description it is plainly apparent that the scarf or neck-tie can be readily attached to or detached from the holder at pleasure, and that with a holder having the fastening explained for a neck-tie or scarf or other similar article of wearing-apparel, the passing of the scarf, Ste., entirely around the neck of the person is obviated, a quite important advantage, while, at the same time, as the fastening is upon the front side of the holder, and the neck-tie, Ste., is there secured to it without requiring to be passed around and back of the holder, the comfort and ease with which a neck-tie or scarf, especially the latter, can be worn are greatly increased.

In lieu of using an elastic loop, an unelastic, or one but slightly elastic, may be employed; but I deem an elastic loop to be the best, as it more freely and readily adjusts itself to the thickness of the neck-tie or scarf applied and to be secured to the holder, as is evident without any further explanation.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In combination with the neck-tie supporter A, the loop G and catch D, as arranged, substantially as described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 14th day of June, 1866.

WM. H. HART, JR.

Witnesses WM. F. MCNAMARA, ALBERT W. BROWN. 

